1. Welcome To The William Blake Archive Blake, William (b. Nov. 28, 1757, Londond. Aug. 12, 1827, London) English poet, painter, engraver; one of the earliest and greatest figures of Romanticism.http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake

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2. William Blake William Blake, Education on the William Blake, the son of a draperfrom Westminster, was born on 28th November, 1757. At the age Category Reference Encyclopedias Reform of Parliamenthttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRblake.htm

William Blake To receive your free copy every week enter your email address below. FREE Education Newsletters - choose below... Education on the Internet Teaching History Online Email: Let keep Ahead .com bring you the world by email SpartacusUSA HistoryBritish HistorySecond World War ... EmailWilliam Blake , the son of a draper from Westminster , was born on 28th November, 1757. At the age of eleven Blake entered Par's Drawing School in the strand. Three years later he was indentured as an apprentice to James Basire, engraver to the Royal Society of Antiquaries. After marrying Catherine Boucher on 18th August 1782, Blake became a freelance engraver. His main employer was the radical bookseller, Joseph Johnson , and publisher of works by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin . Johnson, who been involved in establishing London's first

4. William Blake William Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. In 1800 Blakewas taken up by the wealthy William Hayley, poet and patron of poets.http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wblake.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: ABCD ... Z by birthday from the calendarCredits and feedbackWilliam Blake (1757-1827) British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. He joined for a time the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem in London and considered Newtonian science to be superstitious nonsense. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance. To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. (from 'Auguries of Innocence') William Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier and attracted by the doctrines of Emmanuel Swedenborg. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. His parents encouraged him to collect prints of the Italian masters, and in 1767 sent him to Henry Pars' drawing school. From his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks, he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. Gothic art and architecture influenced him deeply. After studies at the Royal Academy School, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines. In 1783 he married Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Blake taught her to draw and paint and she assisted him devoutly. In 1774 Blake opened with his wife and younger brother Robert a print shop at 27 Broad Street, but the venture failed after the death of Robert in 1787. Blake's important cultural and social contacts included Henry Fuseli, Reverend A.S. Mathew and his wife, John Flaxman (1755-1826), a sculptor and draftsman, Tom Paine, William Godwin, and Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), married to the wealthy grandson of the earl of Sandwich.

5. William Blake William BlakeArtist and Poet. The Life of William Blake. William BlakeThePoet. Blake's poetry has touched the futureexplore some of his works.http://www.karnes-city.isd.tenet.edu/mainst/library/authors/Blake/blake.html

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poetry awardspoetry monthpoetry exhibitsabout the academy Search Larger TypeFind a PoetFind a PoemListening Booth ... Add to a Notebook William Blake In 1772 he married an illiterate woman named Catherine Boucher. Blake taught her to read and to write, and also instructed her in draftsmanship. Later, she helped him print the illuminated poetry for which he is remembered today; the couple had no children. In 1784 he set up a printshop with a friend and former fellow apprentice, James Parker, but this venture failed after several years. For the remainder of his life, Blake made a meager living as an engraver and illustrator for books and magazines. In addition to his wife, Blake also began training his younger brother Robert in drawing, painting, and engraving. Robert fell ill during the winter of 1787 and succumbed, probably to consumption. As Robert died, Blake saw his brother's spirit rise up through the ceiling, "clapping its hands for joy." He believed that Robert's spirit continued to visit him and later claimed that in a dream Robert taught him the printing method that he used in Songs of Innocence and other "illuminated" works.

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Break this heavy chain That does freeze my bones around. Selfish! vain! Eternal bane! That free Love with bondage bound. The William Blake PageThe Art of William BlakeBlake and UnionQuotations from William Blake ... To the Muses William Blake, a visionary English poet and painter who was a precursor of English Romanticism, combined the vocations of engraver, painter, and poet. He was born on Nov. 28, 1757, the son of a London hosier. Blake spent all of his relatively quiet life in London except for a stay at Felpham, on the southern coast of England, from 1800 to 1803. Largely self-taught, Blake was, however, widely read, and his poetry shows the influence of the German mystic Jakob Boehme, for example, and of Swedenborgianism. As a child, Blake wanted to become a painter. He was sent to drawing school at age 10 and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to James Basire, an engraver. From sketching frequently at Westminster Abbey, he developed an interest in the Gothic style, which he combined with a taste for the art of Raphael, Michelangelo , and Durer. He exhibited his first artwork in 1780, married Catherine Boucher in 1782, and published his first poems

10. William Blake - William Blake Poet Seers spiritual poets from the East and the West William Blake- William Blake. William Blake. British poet, painter, visionaryhttp://poetseers.org/the_poetseers/blake

William Blake

British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. He joined for a time the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem in London and considered Newtonian science to be superstitious nonsense. Misunderstanding shadowed his career as a writer and artist and it was left to later generations to recognize his importance. To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. (from 'Auguries of Innocence') William Blake was born in London, where he spent most of his life. His father was a successful London hosier and attracted by the doctrines of Emmanuel Swedenborg. Blake was first educated at home, chiefly by his mother. His parents encouraged him to collect prints of the Italian masters, and in 1767 sent him to Henry Pars' drawing school. From his early years, he experienced visions of angels and ghostly monks, he saw and conversed with the angel Gabriel, the Virgin Mary, and various historical figures. At the age of 14 Blake was apprenticed for seven years to the engraver James Basire. Gothic art and architecture influenced him deeply. After studies at the Royal Academy School, Blake started to produce watercolors and engrave illustrations for magazines. In 1783 he married Catherine Boucher, the daughter of a market gardener. Blake taught her to draw and paint and she assisted him devoutly. In 1774 Blake opened with his wife and younger brother Robert a print shop at 27 Broad Street, but the venture failed after the death of Robert in 1787. Blake's important cultural and social contacts included Henry Fuseli, Reverend A.S. Mathew and his wife, John Flaxman (1755-1826), a sculptor and draftsman, Tom Paine, William Godwin, and Mrs Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800), married to the wealthy grandson of the earl of Sandwich.

17. F&P Blake, William English literature Brief biography of blake william is available in Russian only. Alexander Solzhenitsyn . William Blake (17571827). (English Literature).http://www.fplib.org/literature/forlit/english/blake.html(opt,mozilla,unix,engli

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18. The William Blake Archive Homepage Resources for Further Research Collection Lists, Bibliographies, The Complete Poetryand Prose of william blake edited by David V. Erdman, and (coming soonhttp://www.blakearchive.org/main.html

A hypermedia archive sponsored by the Library of Congress and supported by the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sun Microsystems, and Inso Corporation. With past support from the Getty Grant Program and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Editors Morris Eaves, University of Rochester Robert Essick, University of California, Riverside Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Technical Editors Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, College Park Andrea Laue, University of Virginia Project Manager Andrea Dickens, University of Virginia Project Assistants Christopher N. Jackson, University of Virginia Kari Kraus, University of Rochester Gerald Miller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wayne C. Ripley, University of Rochester Sarah Trippensee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Justin Scott Van Kleeck, University of Virginia

19. Willam Blake Online To return to this home page at any point, click on william blake Online at the top of each page.http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/blakeinteractive

Poet, printmaker, visionary, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) made work that is both profoundly personal and universal. Tate Britain is now presenting the most comprehensive exhibition of Blake's work ever held (9 November - 11 February 2001). The aim is to show Blake as an artist, as a poet and as a man. William Blake Online is designed to enrich your experience of the current exhibition by introducing some of Blake's artistic and poetical works, his life story and the London that he knew. The site follows the four exhibition sections, but includes a fifth section, Learning Tools , designed especially for teachers' and students' needs. If you want to get a helpful overview of the entire site, then go to How to use this site. To return to this home page at any point, click on William Blake Online at the top of each page.

20. The Blake List: Devoted To The Poet William Blake - Albion.com Electronic conference and mailing list devoted to the life and works of william blake. Scan the archives or send an email message to subscribe. Tyger of Wrath william blake in The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) has just opened.http://www.albion.com/blake

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Notice: The Blake List is currently on hiatus whilst we bring up a new Linux-based mail server. In the meantime, you can check out recent postings in the Blake List Archive.This just in: Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:10:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Viscomi To: NASSR List Subject: Blake Exhibition For those of you not planning to visit Australia, you can find a comprehensive website of all the exhibited works at: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/blake/ It is a lovely exhibition. Enjoy, Joe Viscomi

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The Blake List was launched in November 1993. As of March 1999, there have been over 7500 posts. A partial archive of list postings covers 1995-1997 plus 1999.